How hard is uchicago

phuriku
Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:49:08 +0000

on second thought, i don’t think a correlation like that can be made… because you also have to take into account the TYPE of students attending… among other extraneous factors.



Yes, but if anything, Chicago students care LESS about grades than Princeton, Columbia, et al. Chicago students tend to be more academically-minded, but many of the students at the upper Ivies tend to care more about GPA. Overall, in terms of getting grades, Chicago’s difficulty is probably approximately equal to that of the upper Ivies. However, as I have said before, I think that Chicago’s courses (esp. in math and East Asian languages, in which I have the most experience) tend to be considerably faster-paced and deeper.